"Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:cs9v4m$pc8$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> The closest "polite" form we have is "he/she" which is, sadly, a lingustic kludge at best.
>
> Around here, we say "they" for an indefinite third person.
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> Something I also can't get my head around - spoken language has been around much longer than written language, yes?  Then why are there two distinctly separate sets of rules for spoken and written English?  Shouldn't the written language reflect the spoken?  No, apparently not - we always have to use "one" in our papers, when no one says "one."  Confusing.

I say 'one'.

But, since I live in Australia, I get a _lot_ of strange looks.

:-)

"Carlos Santander B." <csantander619@gmail.com> wrote in message news:cse781$27vm$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> Hmm, maybe it was "beard". Either that or my teacher just didn't know what she was talking about - which is entirely possible.
>>
>
> Now you're correct: "barba" is female.

That's even funnier than moustache!

> Don't lose hope, though, with any luck, the Americans will totally factor  out gender from the language,

along with 'election' and 'environment' ?? <CG>

Ok, fire away ...

... but before you do, note that, being a UK and Australian citizen, I acknowledge that our political/cultural/social/environmental systems are just about as f'ed up as that of the US. It's just that a lot fewer people care (~80 million, as opposed to ~ 6.2 billion).

Ain't the world turning out peachy? :-(

Matthew

On Tuesday, 26 May 2020 at 10:55:32 UTC, Miguel A. Pillar wrote:
> On Friday, 14 January 2005 at 21:38:05 UTC, Paul Bonser wrote:
>> pragma wrote:
>> My English teacher in high school told me there are two standards for gender-free pronouns, both use by a few College professors. I wonder what kind of "English Standards Agency" there is or whatnot? I want to see the ANSI Recommendation for the English standard version 1.5 :)
>> -PIB.
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> I have always failed topic on pronouns. This has always caused me troubles when writing essays, I need to have my essays edited on https://www.achieveessays.com  before final submission to my English teacher.

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